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   Hello Lars!   
      
   Sun Mar 27 2011, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote to Gert Koefoed Andersen:   
      
    >>  LK>How do I get MBSE to create the file area automatically?  I've got    
    >>  LK>this working fine for message areas, but haven't been able to figure    
    >>  LK>out what's amiss with my file area configuration.   
    >>   
    >> In your /opt/mbse/var/ you should have a directory named /arealist and   
    >> to put to this directory you shall make some text files for each file   
    >> group echo...   
      
    LK>Gert,   
      
    LK>Thanks for your reply.  With that in hand and the source code handy, I   
    LK>think I've got things working.  To make sure I understand how things   
    LK>work (and in case it's useful for anyone else):   
      
    LK>While MBSE will automatically create file areas, it *will not*   
    LK>automatically create file groups.  For an area to be automatically   
    LK>created from the filegate.zxx file, you must first have the   
    LK>appropriate file group defined in your MBSE configuration.   
      
   You should only use User Chng to Yes and Auto chng to No else will mbse keep   
   going trying to make new area and delete areas when it runs.   
   By doing this will new file areas be auto made so you let your uplink create   
   new file areas with incoming tic files.   
      
    LK>For a file group listed in filegate.zxx like this:   
      
    LK>  % FDN:          Fidonet Administrative files   
      
    LK>You must have a file group defined with a matching comment.  That is,   
    LK>something along the lines of:   
      
    LK>  1.  Name      FIDO_ADM   
    LK>  2.  Comment   Fidonet Administrative files     
    LK>  3.  Base path /opt/mbse/ftp/pub/fidoadmin     
    LK>  4.  Use Aka   1:322/761@fidonet     
    LK>  5.  Uplink    1:322/759@fidonet     
    LK>  6.  Areas     filegate.zxx   
      
    LK>You must have "Start at" set to a non-zero value, and you must have   
    LK>"Auto chng" set to "Yes".  The "Areas" line for all of your groups can   
    LK>point to "filegate.zxx".   
      
    LK>With all this in place, running "mbfido tic" now produces:   
      
    LK>  Processing AP01DG00.TIC, NODEDIFF.Z84 area DIFFZIP from 1:322/759+   
    LK>    27-Mar-2011 20:19:20 mbfido[95901] +- by ALLFIX+, v6.00.019   
    LK>    Copyright (C) 1992,2009 by Bob Seaborn (1:140/30)   
    LK>  8.3 name "NODEDIFF.Z84", LFN "nodediff.z84"   
    LK>  file end at 306008, offset needed 305702   
    LK>  Create empty FDB for area 1001   
    LK>  Auto created TIC area DIFFZIP, group FIDOADMIN, bbs area 1001, for   
    LK>    node 1:322/759@fidonet   
    LK>  No active virus scanners, skipping scan   
    LK>  Execute: /usr/local/bin/unzip -o -j    
    LK>/opt/mbse/var/inbound/NODEDIFF.Z84   
    LK>    FILE_ID.DIZ   
    LK>  Execute: /usr/local/bin/unzip -o -j    
    LK>/opt/mbse/var/inbound/NODEDIFF.Z84   
    LK>    file_id.diz   
    LK>  Execute: /bin/rm -r -f arc95901   
    LK>  Import: NODEDIFF.Z84 (nodediff.z84) Area: DIFFZIP   
      
   You should if you like to let mbse update the nodelist files in    
   opt/mbse/var/nodelist, make /opt/mbse/temp or /tmp have a directorry name   
   nlwork.   
   Then in 10.4 make some setup for mbdiff to work.   
   Then will new nodediff files and nodelist files copy diff and list from the   
   file area to /nlwork and update the nodelist her and copy the updated list to   
   /var/nodelist.   
      
      
     Take care,   
               Gert   
      
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